Configure Office 365 SMTP relay
Office 365 gives you a free SMTP relay which is excellent for sending emails to the outside world. When you have a domain in the cloud, you can configure SMTP relay with Office 365. This can be an Exchange Hybrid…
Permanently clear previous mailbox info
How to delete a mailbox in Office 365 without deleting the user? Removing the user completely means that the mailbox will be deleted, including OneDrive and SharePoint files. Instead, you want to keep the user and delete the mailbox because…
January 2022 Exchange Server Security Updates
Microsoft released several Security Updates (SUs) for Microsoft Exchange Server to address vulnerabilities. Due to the critical nature of these vulnerabilities, we recommend that customers apply the updates to affected systems immediately to protect the environment. These vulnerabilities affect Microsoft…
Import PST to Office 365
How to import PST files into Office 365? Perhaps you start with a brand new Office 365 tenant, and you want to switch over to Exchange Online. If it's a small organization, it's good to export the PST files and…
Migrate mailboxes to Office 365
Mailboxes are on-premises, and you like to migrate a mailbox or bulk migrate mailboxes to Office 365. However, there are important steps involved before you start a migration. This article will show how to migrate mailboxes from Exchange on-premises to…
Exchange mail flow breaks (Disable AntiMalwareScanning)
Mail flow seems not to be working and the mail queue is getting bigger. If you see these issues, disable AntiMalWareScanning for now on the on-premises Exchange Servers and restart the Microsoft Exchange Server Transport Service. Update: Microsoft releases a…
Schedule mailbox batch migration
When you migrate mailboxes from Exchange on-premises to Microsoft 365/Office 365, you can decide the migration start and end time. All this happens in the batch migration wizard. After that, it will sync the mailbox data, and the mailbox will…
Get mailbox migration status with PowerShell
How do you know which mailboxes are syncing and what the mailboxes progress is? The Microsoft 365 Exchange Admin Center will show you the mailbox migration status, but it's delayed and not easy to read. Also, when you have more…
Exchange Server Content index state: NotApplicable
Exchange Server mailbox database shows Content index state: NotApplicable. This only happens in Exchange Server 2019 and not in the previous versions of Exchange Server. Is there a solution to this, or is there an explanation? Let's look at why…
Send from Alias in Office 365
Microsoft listened and added support to send from alias address in Office 365/Microsoft 365. However, the Send as Alias feature will only work for Exchange Online mailboxes and does not work for Exchange on-premises mailboxes. This article will show how…